Last night, six of us went out to dinner at one of the nicest restaurants in Salta. We ordered two bottles of good Laborum cabernet sauvignon. We had beefsteaks, dessert and coffee. The bill came to 1,058 Argentine pesos (about $200). Was that a lot… or a little?

“You Americans don’t understand anything. You have to come to Argentina and live here for a few years. Then you’ll understand America.”; We had to ask, “Huh?”; “When you’re here, you can see more clearly how things really work… and don’t work. You see the real nature of things… especially government. Believe me, you Americans have all sorts of delusions.